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FOR EVERYBODY.

Each year our mail order trade in
sreases. The people OF the West are
finding they can save money by trading
with us, besides getting stylish and well
made goods.
We keep everything worn by man or
boy, and our goods are made up with
special care. We carry many garments
not to be found elsewhere in Colorado.
Garments for miners, cattlemen and
ranchmen specially adapted to their re-
spective vocations.
We cheerfully send our Fashion Cata-
logue and Price List to any address; also
send samples and prices on application.
Satisfaction guaranteed or money re-
funded.
, 1887-08-07

The south is drawing largely from
northern capital. 1t is said over $780,
900, 900 of capital has gone south within
the last year.
, 1887-08-07

the Children. They are es-
ooSO p~ecially liable to sudden
Colds, Coughs, Group, Whooping Cough,
etc. We guarantee Ackers English
Remedy a positive cure. 1t saves
hours of anxious watching. Sold by
DR.. W. N. Hunt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Inman line steamer, City o.
Montreal, from New York for Queens
town, burned at sea August II. A
panic ensued among passengers but
the officers kept cool and preserved or
der. Nine str cams of water were turn
ed upon the burning cotton in the hold
where the trouble started, and the
vessel was headed for Newfoundland,
nine hundred miles away. Contrary
to orders one small boat with eleven
persons put to sea, and has been lost
All others were rescued by the steamer
York City, which reached the Irish
coast.
Numerous brick buildings were lev
eled and two persons were killed by a
tornado at Republican City, Kansas.
Well informed people of Zanzibar
regard as baseless the report that
Henry NJ. Stanley has been murdered.
President Cleveland's substitute dur
ing the war, George Brinske, has just
died in the soldiers home at Bath, n.
Y. He had been suffering from con-
sumption for some weeks, and his con-
dition has been critical for some days
The Chicago Times has been watch
ing the effect of the eight-hour move
ment in that city, and it finds that
nine tenths of the workmen spend the
extra two hours away from home, gen.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25

gentlemen, we have "summered you and
wintered you," and you cannot be de-
pended on to do any effective work
in suppressing saloons. In two instan-
ces in the last campaign, prohibition
lists were assured of the reliable and
prohibitory character of two of your
candidates, voted for them, and were
betrayed i'm both cases. And no can
did man, with his eyes open to all the
facts, can read your paper and fail to
perceive that it is not prohibition, but
the republican party you are laboring
to secure. Nor can you do other wise
and live. You must keep in line with
the republican party of the nation.
The national party is not and cannot
be made prohibitory party. All
hopes built upon it have been and will
continue to be disappointing. Its
death, followed speedily by the death
of the democratic party, is the only
hope for an honest prohibitory law,
thoroughly executed.
The democratic party South, after
all your charges against it, is better
temperance party than the republican
party North. 1t better executes the
laws it has. Neither will join the 9TH
er, North or South. From both, good
men must and will come out, suppress
their long cherished hatreds and join
hands to save the nation from the pres
ent corruption of our politics on the
one hand, and the indescribable curse
of liquor on the other.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
Let Us Have Peace.

The country press find considerable
satisfaction in reading the reports OF
Mrs. Cleveland's doings in the great
metropolitan dailies. Vermont week
lies, many of them, published in a
sparsely settled territory, often print
items of rather a trivial nature con-
corning the dOings of local characters,
but we do not remember seeing any
more absurd items in the weakest of
our weeklies than the Mrs. Cleveland
items that have been daily telegraphed
to the staid old Boston Advertiser and
other city papers. For example, we
are told that last Sunday Mrs. Cleve-
land remained at home and wrote let
ters, an important fact which occupied
a number of inches space in the tell
ing. AS one of the Massachusetts
weeklies puts it, "never thread of
Mrs. Cleveland's wardrobe has this
summer received an inclination to it's
direction, without a perfect ovation of
pen and ink glory from the ever alert
reporter, until even the cotton warp
has scintillated in the dazzled gaze of
every female devotee of fashion who
has read in each separate wrinkle of
each separate fibre the graceful story
in it's entirety of Venus rising from the
waves, wrapped in ringlets of tran
scendant beauty" Give us rest.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
RYEGATE.

Revs. DR.. Milligan and Dickson leave
town this week.
Rev. Bushnell of GrotOn preached in
town hall last Sabbath evening.
Miss Fannie Nelson has returned
from the beach, fat and happy.
1t is expected that the repairs on
the U. P. church will be completed
this week. E. G. Graves of Wells Riv-
er has the charge of painting and pa
pering.
Hugh Adams who had case tried
at the last term of Caledonia county
court against the town of Newbury
was thrown from a carriage near West
Topsham last week Thursday and died
the next day.
HI. G.. Gibson while driving down
the hill south of George Nelson's in a
top buggy, the forward axle broke,
frightening the horse and throwing
Mr.. Gibson from the carriage. The
carriage was badly wrecked, but Mr..
@. not hurt.
The New York Synod of the United
Presby terrain church will meet at this
place Aug. 81 and be in session until
Friday afternoon. The opening SER
mon will be delivered by the Rev. j.
G. D. Findley, D. D., the moderator,
Wednesday evening at o'clock. The
clergymen from all the surrounding
towns are cordially invited to be pres
ent Thursday and Friday. Free en-
tertainment will be provided for dele
gates and all invited guests.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
Railroad Corruption.

Leland Stanford is not the worst
type of California millionaire. Unlike
Flood, O'Brien, Mackey, ETC., he was
not low down to start with, but is a
man of intelligence and ability. For
25 years he has been the president of
the Central Pacific railway. This rail-
road has in effect "run" the state of
California and most of the contiguous
territory all these years. Opposition
which could not be inundated has
always been bought. This corruption
fund which has been almost without
limit, has purchased city governments,
legislatures and even congress. In
fact Stanford himself is U. S. sena-
tor. In the investigation of his rail-
road management by the railway COM
mission this u. S. senator and railroad
magnate refuses to tell where some
three quarters of a million of the rail-
road money has been disposed of and
has destroyed the checks and stubs
which that sum represents. On noti-
ication by ex-Gov. PattisOn, chairman
of the commission, President Cleve-
land telegraphed that the commission
may employ counsel to prosecute the
case, and the result will be looked for
with interest. In referring to this
matter a contemporary pertinently re-
marks: The position of man, once
governor of the state and now its
senior senator, declining to answer
questions involving the influencing of
legislation is seldom equalled in the
annals of railroad history. The fact
that Senator Stanford is worth any
where from $4,000, 600 to s5O,OOO,O 900
should be no reason for hiding any
corruption, which, if in existence, viii
soon come out.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
The Deadly Cigarette.

Any young man who smokes cigar
cites is debarred from admission to
either the naval or military academies.
1t is stated that at a recent exami-
nation of IL young men for West Point
cadetship, all under 20 years of age,
10 of them were at once rejected as
physically unfit, the medical examin-
ers finding that they had what is call
ed "Tobacco heart" The story of a
young man whose death was caused by
smoking cigarettes is told on the Sec
Ond page. Public attention is gradu-
ally being aroused to the extent and
seriousness of this habit The New
York Tribune thinks that the effect of
cigarette smoking on the rising gener-
alton is injurious enough to justify a
movement to repress the evil and asks,
Who is to start it The habit is not
as common hereabouts as in the large
cities, but occasionally silly, dudish
boy can be seen putting away evident
ly impressed with the notion that he is
doing a manly thing. Evidence accu-
mulates that the cigarette smoker is
undermining both health and morals
by the practice.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
Pennsylvania Republicans.

The Pennsylvania republicans pre-
sent their candidate for the presidency
in the person of James G.. Blaine. Here
is the clause in the platform endOrsin G
Mr.. Blaine, which was received with
great enthusiasm
The republicans of Pennsylvania,
the native state of the Hon. James G..
Blaine, will view with high pleasure
his nomination for the presidency in
the campaign of 1888. Accident can
not abate the love of great party, nor
the admiration of a great people for a
statesman true alike to his convictions
and to his country.
This action seems to be the real work
of the state convention. The platform
favors the submission to the people of
a constitutional prohibitory amend
ment; declares for protection favors
the creation of an American marine by
the provision of bOunties upon exports
and discriminating duties upon imports
in American bottoms advocates pen
siOns for dependent soldiers as a good
method for expanding the surplus in
dOrses the republican state administra-
ton; arraigns the democratic party
for its general imbecility;" expresses
detestation for the drawing of the color
line, still practiced so largely in south
ern states; extends sympathy to
Messrs. Gladstone and Parnell and
their associates and takes up some
matters of state politics.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
WELLS RIVER.

Mrs. Strong a former resident is
stopping in the place.
George Chamberlin of Woodsville
died last week of typhoid dysentery
after few days illness.
The people here were panied by the
intelligence of the death, at her home
in Kansas, of Mrs. Hubbard, formerly
Helen Kimball of this place.
The directors of the bank have pur-
chased the lot just north of it, and will
erect building some % feet square.
The work is already begun.
Rev. w. S. Palmer, D. D. and wife
of Norwich, Conn.,, are spending part
of their vacation with relatives here,
and he preached last Sunday to his old
congregation.
During the past week new timbers
have been put in and new floor laid
in the Woodsville bridge across the
Connecticut river, rendering the bridge
impossible for teams from Wednesday
until Saturday. This nearly completes
the repairs.
One day last week as the mill team
drove on to the canal in front of the
mill one of the wheels broke through
and went down as far as the hub. On
examination it was found that all the
woodwork underneath was rotten. SO
the accident might have proved a more
serious one.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
PERSONAL NEWS ITEMS.

Secretary and Mrs. Lamar are spend
ing few weeks in the White Noun
tains.
Hon. w. w. Grout, is visiting with
Governor Proctor for few days at
Proctor.
Professor S. F. Baird of the Smith
sonian Institution died Friday at
Woods Holl.
Gov. Ormsbee has appointed Hon.
William Chaplin of Middlesex as a
member of the Board of Agriculture in
the place of the late Judge Henry Lane.
Prof. o. S. Fowler, the once famous
phrenologist, died last week at his res
idence near Sharon Station, CT, from
spinal trouble brought on by severe
cold.
Elihu B. Taft, ESQ.,, was elected vice
president for Vermont of the American
Bar association which closed it's 10th
annual session at Saratoga Springs on
Friday last.
Sir Lyon Playfair, the English scien-
fist and statesman, arrived by the Ger
manic Friday. Lady Playfair accom-
panies him. She is the daughter of S..
I'll. Russell of Boston, and comes on her
annual visit home.
George w. Cable, the writer on
Southern topics, who has been so sue
cessful teacher of Bible studies at
Northampton, is now to conduct DIR.
Meredith's Saturday afternoon class in
fremont Temple, Boston.
Roscoe Conkling is making repu-
tatiOn as a swimmer. He is very fond
of the sport and his speciality is float
ing. He can float for hours at time.
The lung development he has obtained
as an orator stands him in good stead
when he enters the water.
Bayard Taylor's daughter, Miss Lii
liam Bayard Taylor, was married at
FREDERICKSBURG, Germany, on the 18th
inst, to Otto G.. L. Killiami, medical
student at the University of Halle. Mr..
and Mrs. Killiami will at once begin
housekeeping in Halle.
j. P. Cody, brother of Buffalo Bill,
is suffering from hydrophObia at Sc
dalia, Kansas, resulting from the bite
of an enraged cat six weeks ago. Two
children were bitten at the same time,
but neither have shown any symptoms
of the malady.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
A Boycott All Will Approve.

1t isn't bad sort of boycott which
Grand Master Workman POwderly
recommends to the working men in Or
der to counterfeit the mischief wrought
by the spectators. He urges them to
keep their eyes open and to keep them
turned toward the produce exchanges
of New York and other large cities,
and the moment the grain or produce
gambler stacks the cards and ANNOUNCE
es that there is scarcity in a certain
article of fOOd-the price must go up
in cOnsequence-every member should
resolve out loud, that until the unhal-
lowed hand of the speculator has been
removed from the control of the arti-
Gle in question not a pound nor an
ounce more than can be avoided will
be purchased. Mr.. POwderly would
place an eternal boycott on every
grain and stock gambler in the United
States and Canada. Success to this
boycott.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
PEACHAM.

Potatoes are reported small and few
in the hill, on account of wet weather
and rust.
Mrs. Bunker's Java sparrow, admir-
ed by all for its beauty and song, was
found dead Monday without known
cause.
Among recent arrivals from Chicago
we notice the MattOcks family stopping
at the hotel, and the Chandeliers at Miss
Eastman's.
At an informal meeting on Monday
evening it was arranged to hold So
ciable and farewell reception just be-
fore the departure of Rev. S. S. Martyr
and family. The date is not yet fixed
but it will probably be week from
next Monday evening.
Our town is still filled with summer
visitors from far and near. Those who
came hate to go away, and they send
word to their friends to come. Never
were the hills so green at this season.
Never was the harvest more abundant.
In spite of the croakings and evil
prophecies it seems that there is vitali-
ty in the old town yet.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
Rum Tactics.

While the friends of temperance are
discussing among themselves the
methods that ought to be adopted in
order to suppress the rum traffic, the
friends of rum are daily Strengthening
themselves by combining, and they do
not seem to find one half the difficulty
in agreeing among themselves that the
temperance people do. The brewers
organizations are among the strongest
in the country and now comes the
'Distillers and Cattle Feeders Trust"
a new organization representing an ag
gregate capital of $3O,OOO,OOO. Rum
presents bold and solid front to it's
opponents, temperance divides it's
forces and spends large share of its
time in talk. Some day the good tenn
perance people will understand that
they may learn many profitable les
sons from the tactics adopted by the
enemy.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25

CTATE OF VERMONT CALEDONIA DISTRICT, S.
- In Probate Court holden at the Probate Office,
in st. Johnsbury, on the 25th day of August, A. d.
1887.
Henry A. Smith, Administrator de bonis non
with will annexed upon the Estate of Josiah A.
johnson late of Barnet in said district deceased
makes application to said court for license to sell
the whole of the real estate of said deceased
sisting of one half acre of land with dwelling house
and out buildings thereon, called the homestead,
four acres of meadow land, thirty-seven acres of
woodland and pasture and shoe shop and land
on which same stands, all situate in Barnet afore-
said, representing to said Court that it would
be beneficial TO the Heirs, legatees, devisees and
all persons interested in the Estate of said deceas
ed to sell the whole of the Real Estate of said de-
ceased as aforesaid. and convert the same into
money; and also brings Herewith into Court the
consent and appreciation in writing to the grant
ing OF such Hcence of all the Heirs, legatees. dew
isees to said Estate residing in this State.
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court that said
application come under consideration and be heard
on the 10th day of September, A. d: 1881 at the
Probate ONCE in st. Johnsbury; and 1T Is further
ordered that all persons interested be notified
hereof by publication Of notice of this application
and order thereon, three weeks successfully In the
Californian, printed at st. Johnsbury, before said
time Of hearing. that they may appear at said time
and place, and, if they see cause, object thereto
1915 WALTER P. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25

The Boston g. Maine road scores the
first victory in the New Hampshire
contest. The House railroad commit
tee of the Legislature voted last week
8 to to report the Hazen or Boston &
Maine bill in a new draft, and by the
same vote decided to recommend the
indefinite pOstpOnement of the Ather-
ton or Concord railroad bill. 1t is
said that the amended Hazen bill will
confer more powers than those con-
templated by the original bill. Mean
while Austin COrbin's offer of half a
million for the states interest in the
Concord road brings a new element
into the case. Such a sale, it is con-
jectured, would eventually result in
the consolidation of the road with the
Boston & Maine.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
Probate of Will.

- In Probate Court held at the Probate office in
st. Johnsbury, within and for said District on the
10th day of August A. ID. 1887.
An instrument purpOrting to be the last Will and
Testament of Joseph NJ. Stevens late of Hardwick
in said district deceased being presented to Court
by Charles g. Montgomery the executor therein
named for Probate:
1t is ordered by said Court that all persons con.
eerned therein be notified to appear at session Of
said Court to be holden at the Probate Office in
St. Johnsbury, on the 18th day of September
A u. 1857, and show cause, If any they may have,
against the Probate OF said VIII; for which pur-
pose it is further ordered that copy of the record
Of this order be published three weeks successfully
In the Californian, printed at st. Johnsbury, pre-
vious to said time appointed for hearing.
By the Court Attest
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
"A true Copy of Record Attest
1918 WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
The Canadian Pacific.

Everything seems to contribute to
the success of the Canadian Pacific
road these days. 1t has now inaugu-
rated a ruinous competition with the
American roads in transcontinental
traffic. The other day it was offering
second class tickets to Portland, Ore
gOn, for $33 from Montreal. The fare
from New York to Montreal is $40,
making the trip $43. The rate of the
American lines from New York to
Portland, Oregon, second class, is $50
so and first class, $3.50. The inter
state law prevents the American roads
from meeting the great reduction of
the Canadian line, and it is said that
they are losing an immense amount of
business in consequence. More than
this the Canadian Pacific also accepts
freight at reduction of about Is per
cent. from the tariff of American lines.
A Washington despatch says: The
attention of the interstate commerce
commission has been called to the in =
roads which the Canadian Pacific has
made into the traffic business of the
American transcOntinental companies
1t is stated that the law in connection
with the treaty of Washington, which
permits the transportation of goods in
bond from points in one country,
through the territory of the other,
back to the country from which the
consignment was originally made has
brought about this result, and if it is
found that the committee is powerless,
and it seems that it can do nothing
absolutely under the circumstances,
the roads will appeal to congress for
relief. They will have a resolution
offered, directing the President to no.
tify the British authorities that the
United States desires the abrogation of
the section of the treaty of Washing
ton under which goods can be trans
ported in bond from one country
through the other, back to the country
from which they originated.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
for License to Sell

CTATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT &c.
y In Probate Court, held at st. JOhnsbury,
within and for said District on the 22d day OF
August A. ID. 1887.
Julius A. Humphrey guardian of Alden Wether-
bee, of Burke in said District insane person makes
application to said Court for license to sell the
following described real estate of his said ward to
wit about 122 of land with buildings thereon
called the home place, about 10 acres of woodland
and one-half of about 20 acres of land called the
Walter place, all situated in Burke, representing
that the sale thereof for the purpose of putting the
proceeds of such sale at interest investing the
same in stocks real estate, would be beneficial to
said ward:
Whereupon, it is ordered by said Court that said
application be referred to a session thereof, to be
held at Probate Office in said St. Johnsbury; on
the 10th day of September, A. ID. 1897 for hearing
and decision thereon and it is further ordered that
all persons interested be notified hereof by pub
LEGATION of notice of this said application and order
thereon, three weeks successfully in the CaedOnian
printed at St. JOhnsbury, before said time Of
hearing, that they may appear at said time and
place, and if they see cause, object thereto.
By the Court, Attest,
1915 WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
WHEELOCK.

Chef. Bradley who has recently been
seriously injured is on fair way to
recovery.
The Sabbath school in the village
contemplate having picnic excursion
to WillOughby lake Aug. 80.
The Ladies Aid society have pur-
chased an excellent addition of so vol
umes to the Sabbath school library.
There is to be picnic sociable in
Mr.. sideways grove, north of the viii
lage next Saturday afternoon. Should
the weather be unfavorable it will be
held in the town hall. There are to be
various amusements. A large COM
pany is expected and good time an
ticipated. 80